Friday Shopping and Sewing

Since today was my day off, I decided to take a trip down to my favorite local quilt shop, Quilter's Corner in Finleyville, PA. I picked up this pile of fabrics. I love the red and white dots, they are Chloe's Closet Redwork by Moda. I also really loved the little grey circles, a Riley Blake fabric. And of course I couldn't pass up the Aneela Hoey Little Apples prints (those little turtles are so cute).

I came home and did a little housework. Then went to my sewing room for about an hour before getting Troy off the bus and worked on quilting my Owls in Stars quilt. I finished this quilt top back in 2010, but had put it on the stack to be quilted. Last week I found this floral print and thought it would work well as the backing.

I might be able to finish quilting this one this weekend. Then I need to choose a binding, I'm thinking green or orange. Any suggestions?

Some Progress and Some Books

I quilted my Amy Butler Love quilt this week. I actually started quilting it Monday night and finished it on Tuesday, it went very quickly. I did basic stippling on this one. The binding is attached, now I'm just finishing hand sewing the binding to the back.

I also picked up some new books with a Barnes and Noble gift card that I had gotten for Christmas. I can wait to make the Amy Butler bag that's shown on the front, I just have to decide which fabrics to use.

Afternoon Quilting and the Imaginary Ice Cream Truck

I started quilting my quilt last night and have gotten pretty far. I think an hour or two more and I'll have it done. The new Janome works great for quilting. The space is just awesome. I'm stippling this time, which is moving along quickly and easily. I can't wait to see the binding on this one.

And while I was quilting Troy was playing in the "Ice Cream Truck", yes under my cutting table was the ice cream truck today. He brought me several imaginary ice cream cones while quilting. 4 year olds have such a great imagination.

Finished Quilting

I actually finished quilting this quilt last Tuesday. I sewed the binding to the edge and am now working on hand sewing the binding. I also worked on a secret Easter project over the weekend. I'll have to show that after Easter. I started a new quilt last night too, maybe I'll have some pictures tomorrow of that one. These are some of the quilting/binding pictures, and one showing all the fuzz that gets into my machine from quilting (this was the second time I cleaned it out during this quilt).

Quilt Progress

I finished quilting Troy's quilt on Sunday.

I started the binding yesterday and got it all machine sewn to the quilt. Now it's just the hand sewing, which will probably take me a while to finish (only 290").